Hearsay

“Until recently, I thought the happiest title I had was ‘former member of the Board of Bar Overseers.’ Now I know it’s ‘former president of the MBA.’” - Michael E. Mone, at the Massachusetts Bar Association Board of Delegates meeting ...

The numbers are in and incumbent L. Scott Harshbarger is the resounding winner in the contest for attorney general – and not only in votes. Everyone already knows that Harshbarger sailed past Republican challenger Janis M. Berry in the AG’s ...

The Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society last week hosted representatives of the Russian Constitutional Court, who were in Boston for a week-long exchange focusing on the developing of a new constitution for the former Soviet Union. The reception followed a ...

It was not Massachusetts Bar Association Civil Litigation Section Chairman James E. Harvey Jr.’s day at the MBA Board of Delegates meeting last week in Springfield. The Civil Litigation Section has been pushing a measure which would call for courts ...

When lawyers are worrying about violence in the courtroom, it’s not usually the court employees that are the source of trepidation. But take the case of Commonwealth v. Roger W. O’Neil, Jr., which the Supreme Judicial Court decided earlier this ...

“This much is common ground: the defendant’s Pontiac automobile … was a disreputable-looking jalopy.” - Judge Rudolph Kass, in Commonwealth v. Kimball, overturning a defendant’s drug-trafficking conviction on the ground of an illegal automobile search

Superior Court Judge Patrick F. Brady addressed a novel legal issue earlier this month: whether a transvestite or transsexual is “handicapped” under the Massachusetts anti-discrimination law, Chapter 151B. The question arose in a suit filed by a plaintiff who was ...

“Stereotyped characters do not appear in a vacuum. A sheriff appears in a western saloon, a waitress appears in a diner, and a soldier appears in a war. … The settings [in this case] in which the jealous ex-girlfriend and ...

HEARSAY HAS IT that just when judges thought it was safe, another Boston news outfit is reportedly snooping around courthouses looking for information on the judicial work ethic – or lack thereof. WBZ-TV, Channel 4, is “doing some kind investigative ...

Judging by the rush U.S. Assistant Attorney General Deval L. Patrick gets from receiving a telephone call from President Bill Clinton, the former Boston lawyer plans on staying on the Washington, D.C. scene for awhile. “They say when you lose ...